Albrecht's Chronicles

It became January after December, and another month after February. And time passed again and became the second half of February. The weather was still cold, but people now lived with the expectation that spring would soon come.

Albrecht spends his time teaching Randolph and helping the villagers with their hard work.

Meanwhile, Ludwig's soldiers equipped him with basic combat skills to teach the men of the village. It was nothing. Forward shields, surrounded by squadron commanders or stabbed at the same time with spears.

The spear was about three meters long, but one hand held up the shield, and the other hand held up the spear. It was a lot of work and I needed practice to get used to it.

In this world, not many houses responded to the call when the Lord summoned them, equipped with battle gear. This town had nothing to do with the lord's summons, but I studied hard what Albrecht taught me.

Albrecht and Randolph go to the clearing and practice playing with their spears upside down. Lance of this world is not the conical heavenly lance he saw in the movie, but he just used a spear on a horse and called it Lance. It was the same or different from the spear used by the infantry.

Hitting the target on a rocking horse wasn't easy. The most important thing was to keep your speed and weight on the edge of the window as a mileage without losing focus. Techniques were unnecessary and only focused, breathing with horses, and courage not to be frightened by the coming opponent.

It was quite spacious for a vacant place in the mountains, but not big enough to run at full speed with confidence. Albrecht and Randolph face each other, running slowly, and practicing with a focus on just getting used to the riding cage.

Even if you run slowly, Albrecht whirls as if he were almost paralyzed, even if he were to hold on to the opponent's shield.

This time again, Randolph succeeds in striking Albrecht's shield, but Albrecht survives, and instead, Randolph is shaken by the reaction.

“Isn't this unfair? Master.”

“What do I do when I'm born? You think your opponent would let you do that in battle? ”

After three months of fierce instruction from Albrecht, Randolph had a good muscle attached to his body. I was able to take off the boy's teat and call him a young man.

“Hey, let's take a break. It's not funny."

Albrecht rests with his horse tied up, and Randolph takes his time riding slowly. He seemed like he didn't think to come down once he got on the horse.

Randolph says he drove back and forth lightly in front of Albrecht.

“But, Master, how old are you really? If you look closely, you don't look very old. ”

"You punk!? ’

Albrecht was a poor liar in his own words. Albrecht is embarrassed, but he hears strange noises from a distance. You can't hear Albrecht without his monstrous hearing. Neither can Randolph.

The sound of birds, bugs, and the sound of nearby creeks, and the sound of the wind touching the trees and grass, were heard in a very small distance, unlikely to fit in here.

Randolph finds himself embarrassed when he talks about his age with Albrecht. Even now, when I brought up my age, I smiled at the embarrassed master, but my expression soon became serious.

Are you mad? ’

At that moment, you hear someone screaming from a distance.

“Found it!”

You heard Randolph. Soon, I felt goosebumps, my eyes widened, and my heart was beating. Albrecht immediately rode to town, followed by Randolph.

Driving along a crooked mountain path and over a low blunt hill, you hurriedly head to town. As you get closer to the source of the sound, you hear the sound of an organ. Soldiers.

The soldiers are about to enter the town in a row on a narrow road. At the entrance of the village, the men came out with their equipment and put their shields in front of the windows. The soldiers panicked.

Why is there a British soldier here? ’

A soldier shouts.

“Hey! You're here first!? ”

But the men in the village had no answer. The soldiers were more confused. It was just because I was going to get stabbed to death if I went forward through this narrow path.

Judging from the posture, the peasants who were carrying the same fish were positioned in their form, not clumsily raising their spears.

At that moment, you see a man walking towards you with his shield and sword.

Since Albrecht has a narrow path, he tied his horse nearby and swiftly drew his sword and approached the soldiers on foot.

A soldier in the back row tries to block the window, but Albrecht grabs the spear and pulls forward. The soldier walked forward and died with a sword in his throat.

The path is narrow, and the soldiers can't aim the spear properly. Albrecht sneaks up on them, slicing them, slicing them open and killing them, as if they were just as natural.

Should the last soldier drop his spear and draw his sword? Where? Albrecht came up to me one day thinking about this. And I was hit on the head and blacked out.

Albrecht slaughtered a dozen soldiers and brought only the last of them back to town.

The village men step out of the way with their spears pointed forward. As I passed by, I saw the village men shaking their hands a lot. But we did a great job defending the town. Albrecht smiled.

Later, Randolph rides in the blitz and grabs Schwarz's belt.

As you enter the town, the villagers come out anxiously. You see the chief, too. Albrecht puts the soldier at the center of town and ties him up with a rope.

“Bring me a bucket of water with a twig. ”

One of the Anakins listens to Albrecht and swiftly brings it to you.

Albrecht sprinkles a jar of water on the soldier's face. The soldier wakes up blurry, and Albrecht asks with a sword in his face.

“Who are you? ”

The soldier saw Albrecht. And I saw the villagers surrounding me. I turned my head and eyes with a frightened look and was confused.

Albrecht grabs the soldier by the shoulder.

“Every time I don't answer, it's a single stab. ”

“Uhhhhh, uhh. ”

Did he just stab himself in the shoulder? The soldier who was still confused nodded vigorously, looking at Albrecht with frightening eyes.

“Who do you belong to? ”

“You, Niederburn. I'm a Niederburn soldier.”

Albrecht saw the chief.

“A neighboring territory to the west of here. ”

Albrecht turns his eyes to the soldier again.

“What are you doing here? ”

“The, the, the, the, uh, the supply guys, they were wiped out......”

A Soldier said he was originally a Niederburn soldier and was summoned to the Northern Garrison because of the war. Ludwig, who was in charge of supplies from the rear, began searching the area without any news and has only just found this place.

I would have waited a long time for news from Ludwig, but it would have taken me a long time to figure out why he didn't come, and it would have taken me a long time to pull out search parties separately.

It would not have been easy to mobilize the troops gathered for the war.

Originally Ludwig's troops were the troops of Oberburn, the former territory of Penbach. The lord had already gone to the garrison and Albrecht had killed everything he had decided to join after Ludwig commanded the troops to seize the war supplies from the surrounding villages.

“Any additional troops coming this way? ”

The soldier shakes his head. Albrecht plunges his sword deep into the soldier's neck. The soldier stomped and died.

The villagers gathered around him blindfolded their children in a hurry. He accepts Albrecht's actions, but it gives him the creeps to simply kill someone without hesitation.

The chief held a town meeting in a long time.

* * *

After the mid-after mid-autumn sunlight settled on the lake, and the lake sprinkled its light dazzling all around. Even though I didn't know what was happening in the village, I still felt the beauty of the landscape.

After taking the soldiers' equipment, the bodies are cleared out and people gather in the center of town. Some were sitting nearby and others were standing. The men guarding the village leaned their spears against their shoulders and looked at the chief in the middle with their shields on the ground.

Albrecht sits on a wooden box chewing hard jerky on the outside, watching the floor and listening to stories. Randolph stands next to Albrecht, looking at the chief with an uneasy look on his face.

“You've all seen what happened today, even if you don't talk about it. I called a meeting because I wanted to tell you that living here is dangerous. And I want to hear about that countermeasure. ”

People didn't say anything with a worried face. Then one of the girls said,

“Hey, didn't that soldier say there are no more troops? Wouldn't it be okay to just live like this......? ”

He said all the soldiers who knew about this place were dead, so it didn't matter. The chief shakes his head and says,

“Nobles don't forget revenge. You've heard that nobles who can't avenge themselves aren't nobles.They 'll find us in 10 years or 20 years, and we'll never know what happens next. ”

Those who heard the chief's words gave a gloomy look. I was just about to settle down, but I thought I should leave. Then one of the men who was guarding the village said.

“Wouldn't it be okay if the Young King in the North won? Then the lord can change here, and if he is recognized as a proper village, he may be able to continue to live here. ”

Then another man said, instead of the chief.

“What guarantee do we have that the young king will win? And even if I win, what guarantee do I have that I will replace the lord here? ”

After returning to the unanswered question, people looked depressed. Do we really have to leave? One of the people asked the chief.

“Something on your mind, Chief? ”

The chief sighed deeply and said.

“Can I be sharp? As a matter of fact, this is a place that many of you know, but I've been going back and forth to Penbach to catch fish in the lake from time to time. That's why it was so easy to get settled here. Now, where will you go when you leave here? It would be impossible to go to a place with no shortage of food. They'll all die on the way. I think we should just clear out the rest of the property and head back to the city. ”

People were desperate to hear the chief's words, almost like a death sentence. Do we really have to get out of here? I think I can live a little longer. The soldiers won't come at us right away. Then how much longer can we stay? With all sorts of worried faces, people only looked at the ground.

And Albrecht, who had eaten all the tough jerky, stood up and said,

“Don't you think the young king can win? I will fight alongside men who can fight here. Then you can claim your rights after the war. ”

One of the armed village men said with a worried face.

“Ha, but, sir. We are not soldiers......”

Albrecht pauses on the squad leader.

“Who is born to be a soldier? A soldier if he can fight. And why are nobles nobles and you commoners? First, all the ancestors of the nobles were excellent at killing people, and second, they took matters into their own hands. At the risk of my life. If this town wants to claim rights, it has to pay. Not money or grain, but blood. ”

Albrecht is right, and people just die of deception and can't speak any more. But there are brave people everywhere. The squad leader of the armed men said:

“You're right. How long will I live like this? I used to want to fight, but I couldn't fight because I didn't have the equipment. Not now. Let's go out there and fight for our rights. ”

The courage was contagious, said another man.

“That's right. I'll join the Knight. ”

Then came the men who wanted to join the war.

Albrecht turns to Randolph. Randolph smiles at his handsome face.

“Squire is only there by the master's side. ”

The chief felt anxiety, anxiety, and hope at the same time. A knight comes with supplies to feed the village, and now he leaves town with men to fight.

I've always tried to take responsibility for the villagers, and now I feel like I'm leaving my own hands, but I don't feel bad about it.

Older boys and old men decided to stay in the village. The strong adult men all decided to join the war. Most of them were men who had taught Albrecht basic combat techniques.

There were ten. Together, Albrecht and Randolph were twelve. Unlike when I snuck in here to avoid the angry lord's soldiers, the men trembled and feared, but valiantly left the village and went to the world.

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